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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Three: Love

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AS if some little Arctic flower,

Upon the polar hem,

Went wandering down the latitudes,

Until it puzzled came

To continents of summer,

To firmaments of sun,

To strange, bright crowds of flowers,

And birds of foreign tongue!

I say, as if this little flower

To Eden wandered in—

What then? Why, nothing, only

Your inference therefrom!